Sunday, March 29, 2015

I can't believe it's almost Day 30 of the Colouring Challenge! But here's a quick post for Day 26. It's a card for Daughter's swimming teacher:

I re-printed the image slightly larger and cut out two of the fish to pop up with foam tape. I added some drops of Glossy Accents as well to simulate water drops. Colouring with our pencil stash and smoothed with artist thinners.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

We love 4x4'ing and off-roading although we don't nearly get enough chance to do so with our hectic lifestyle! So when I saw our challenge at Moving Along With The Times, "IN THE WILD", I just had to set my sights on the wild outdoors:

It's also the first time I'm inking up this very cool Itty Bitty, Having Fun, from Unity Stamp Co. I quickly coloured it with the broad nib of a light blue Spectrum Noir marker and just went around the outline as well with a tan one.The trees in the background was done with some generational stamping using GinaK Designs. I didn't find the stamp set in the shop so sadly I'm thinking it was discontinued :(

In the Wild can be country, weather, animal or whatever this means to you!We hope the challenge calls you to join in !

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Remember these that look like this are just coloured images that will be made into cards in future. I struggle to photograph them clearly because of the nearness of the phone camera to the paper I think...

Monday, March 23, 2015

Flower stamp: GinaK Designs "A Year of Flowers" - I just shaded it with a finger dauber and distress inks. The top flower was popped up with foam tape on top of a plain image (fussy cut).
Leaves die-cut: Spellbinders - Also shaded with distress inks

I used GinaK Designs "A Year of Flowers" for the rose and the sentiment from "Whimsical Wishes"
Colouring was done with pencils & then shaded with artist thinners. It was a bit bright to match the papers so I shaded over it with Antique Linen distress ink. (This was my colouring for Day 11).

I would also like to make this my 3rd entry into the World Wide Open DT challenge:

Sunday, March 22, 2015

My second new image today is this cake that I drew so that it can either be a classy birthday cake or a wedding cake. It's quick to colour and easy to cut out. I did 3 layers of the bottom tier, 2 of the middle tier and paper piecing in a single layer at the top:

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

I am currently on a card-making spree and I hope it doesn't end. Some things gotta give though but I hope they're not too high on the priority list. I haven't played along at Cas-ual Fridays in too-long-to-remember but so glad I made some time to join in their "Springtime Melodies" challenge:

I Googled for images of my favourite song, Summertime, and used it for my background paper. OK, I know Summertime is not Springtime but I still wanted to use my favourite song. But the happy Sunflower (Papertrey Ink and dies) and yellows should hint at sunnier skies!

For the sentiment I used the G-key and a "musical pun" if you may - the # (hashtag) is also the "Sharp" notation.

So here's to #easyliving as the temperature go up in the North, and cools down in the South (thank goodness!!)

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Sometimes a sketch seems deceptively simple until you get started. I LOVED this sketch from Cas(e) this Sketch because it actually has so many different approaches. But when I started nothing seemed to go right! I had about 3 flops that ended up in the bin but in the end I was quite happy with the result! This was tricky to photograph because the sentiment was stamped in black Stazon on clear plastic which was adhered to the frame from the back. The frame was then popped up with foam tape so it floats above the background cardstock:

Friday, March 13, 2015

Don't you just love it when you start with an image, then have the perfect paper with it and then see a perfect sketch for it too? AND the artist of the image is having a challenge that fits with the image you did already as well! I love it when a plan comes together!

I love the versatility and challenge that bingo-grids bring to card making. For a CAS card maker it can be quite challenging and I often have to scratch my head! Thanks, Sue, for creating a great grid to play with at Moving Along with the Times!

I haven't had a chance in a very long, long time to make something specially for Simon Says Stamp. This must be one of the companies in the States that I would be willing to move there for :D Awesome range & amazing products! One can hope ...

Lucky for me their new challenge is "B" is for .... and I just recently got this set from Unity: